St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-03
SATURDAYS. RIFF-RAFF
Boothroyd, Governor 0huroh's Maligner,
Said to Have Been Seen at the
Merchants Yesterday.
Governor Church and Auditor Ward, of
Dakota, Spend Two Days in
the City.
w. j. Murphy, of Grand Forks, Says
Several Men Are on Secretary
McCormack's Trail.
The Trouble Sarah Bernhardt Had In
Reading Il Countryman's Writ
ing Yesterday.

Gov. Church, of Dakota came in from
| Huron Sunday morning and stopped at the
Merchants. He was accompanied by Terri
torial Auditor Ward. They didn't register,
for Gov. Church prideS himself on his ability
| to eVade the ubiquitous reporter, and, al
though he looks on them with good deal OF
respect, he mentally dubS them "holy ter
rors." Yesterday afternoon, about n half an
hour before the train left for the north, the
two men incautiously seated themselves in
| the rotunda of the hotel and in ten minutes
were in the hands OF the reporter. They had
| nothing to say, they said, of Importance.
Gov. Church has been spending a few days
with his family in Huron, and was on his way
to Bismarck He said he hadn't decided when
to move his family up to the capital city, but
| thought he should do so as soon as he could
secure comfortable quarters for them. Bis
marck is picking up. anticipating the arrival
| of q new railroad from Aberdeen, and prop
erty, as well as rents, had gone up peg.
Auditor Ward was also en- route to Bismarck.
He had been to Watertown to investigate the
affairs of the Watertown Insurance company,
and said he found it in splendid shape,
backed up by unlimited capital and number
| of men full of enterprise and push.
| Gov. Church said that he had seen Booth
royd, the man whom Senator Cullom said
made the oral statements against Gov. Church
to the effect that he was Incorporate and
rather loose in his habits prior to his con-
| firmation as governor of Dakota, at the Mer
chants. This would surprise some people,
who believed Boothroyd to be basking in the
sun on the European side OF the Atlantic just
| at present. The governor said Mr.. Booth
| royd was arraigned before him when he was
| judge in the Fifth district in the December
| term of court, 1886. charged with stealing
snow fences from the Dakota Central Rail-
road company. The case was continued and
| BoOthroyd gave bail for his appearance. A
! few
| that he had sailed for Europe. One thing
was certain, he disappeared from his native
| haunts in the neighborl8od of Huron, and
hide nor hair of him has not been seen there
since. There has been considerable wild
speculation as to who made the charges
| against the governor, but it has never been
given out before automatically who the man
really was Senator Cu!lom gave the name of
| Boothroyd to Gov. Church several weeks after
| his confirmation. 1t was supposed that
| through spirit of revenge, Boothroyd on
| his way East, Ostensibly to sail for Europe.
| dropped in at Washington and made his
| charges against the governor. Boothroyd's
name could not be found on any OF the hotel
registers The gentleman who saw him said
| he thought that he was travelling under an
assumed name to avoid the opportunities of
several South Dakota farmers, who, it is
claimed loved him not wisely, but too well.
J ~
| r. II. Loyhed and wife are stopping at the
| Ryan. freddy, as ne Is 1dlnlllafly aleu,lS u
| hardware merchant of the pretty little city of
Faribeult and enjoys the distinction of being
secretary of the board of trade He was one
of the prime movers in calling the convention
held there a few weeks ago for the purpose
OF kicking against the threatened suspension
| of the long and short haul clause in the inter-
state commerce law between Chicago and st.
Paul and Minneapolis. He's a rustler from
| away back, and is looked up at by the busi-
ness men OF Faribault with a great deal of
pride.
~
| W. j. Murphy, of the Grand Forks Plain
dealer, was at the Merchants yesterday. Mr..
| Murphy, when it comes to a question of pol
itics, says he Is astride the fence, but proposes
| to get his foot into every political fight that
| shows up in his part of the country. He
| spent couple of weeks at the capital during
the last session of the legislature and fought
an appropriation bill through, and carried
| home in his inside pocket as q result some
| thing over $4,000 of territorial funds.
| Murphy generally wears celuloid collars and
| cuffs but is a hustler on general principles
and knows how to run newspaper to suit
| the taste of everybody. He has been deYot-
| ing himself for the past few days to roasting
| Secretary Mccormick who, he says, has sew
| eral men on his trail.
~
| A. ID. Lewis and G. l.. Lloyd, from England,
were registered at the Merchants yesterday.
| They are two lively lads from the soil of
| bonny Britain, en- route to the Bad Lands of
Montana. in search of game. They cut
| striking figure yesterday as they WatZed into
| the Merchants rotunda with rifles slung
| across their shoulders and cartridge belts
| around their waists. Hunting suits of gray
corduroy, helmet hats of plaid chevIot and
| deep voices with IL rich infection, were a few
| of the evidences they carried about them
| that they were from lover the sea-" Like
| the men of their nation, after dinner they
| sank into a chair in the rotunda and drew
solace through three-inch bore briarwood
| pipe.
| -
| A small man, with Il swarthy face and
! long beard split in the middle, carrying Il Cos
samer in his left hand, walked up to the clerk
in the Ryan yesterday and asked:
! "Can zee MAIDEN Bunhart?'
''Send up your card, SIR" replied the affa-
| BILE clerk.
The little man smiled, took white card
| from the case and covered 1t with ZigZag
marks. A colored porter came up with sill
yer salver, the little man dropped the card in
it, DOTTED his hat at the porter and strobe
nervously up and down the rotunda while the
porter disappeared up the broad stairway.
| In about two minutes the boy came back and
said the lady said she didn't want any.
Didn't want what?' asked the little man,
with surprised air.
| mo fricasseed frogs legs" replied the
| porter.
I'm, zee ulitDle! eJcculaCeu Cue uCIle man.,
| with a gasping laugh. Il zee, Zhe connowt
my-er-wrtlng. 1 will write it plainor.''
And taking a fresh card he made some marks
| straiter than those sent up before.
| Off went the porter up the broad stairs, and
| chuckling to himself the little man resumed
| his nervous pace.
The porter came back again and said:
| ''She says she don't want to hire no maid;
| she's got one that's good enough for her."
| "D-amn!'' said the little man, loudly. 81
|
pen and clean card he carefully penned the
| following name:
|
| VERvAIS DE SLAIG.
: Editor Critique.
| said no SStalye-ar-1at I'm